Shaping and embossing hats and caps



A. L. BAYLEY. rnoozss FOR BMBQSSING HATS, 6m.

N0.31 ,944. Patented Apr. 9, 1861.

Witnesses U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. L. BAYI-JEY, OF AMESBURT, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHAPING AND EMBOSSING HATS AND CAPS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,944, dated April 9, 1861.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it .known' that I, A. L. BAYLEY, of Amesbury, in the county of Essexand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Process forPressing, Shaping, or Embossing Hats and Caps; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, in which Figure l is a vertical section of the apparatusby which my invention is performed, and exhibits a hat undergoing theprocess. Fig. 2 is a top view of a hat which has been subjected to theprocess.

My invention consists in shaping or embossing a hat and cap by placingit in a suitably formed shell or concave mold of metal or other suitablyhard, strong and smooth substance filling its interior with sand orother granular or puli erous material and subjecting such material topressure by which means the felt or other fabric of which the hat or capis composed is driven against or into the figure or figures of the shellor mold and so caused to take a corresponding form.

To enable others to use. my invention, I will proceed to describe itwith reference to the drawings.

A, (Fig. 1,) represents the shell or concave mold by which the form orfigure of the exterior of the hat or cap is to be produced having itsinterior made of the requi site form to receive the whole of the hatwith the exception of the brim by casting, turning, engraving or anyother means. B,

is the hat represented in Fig. 1 as placed in the mold A, and filledwith sand C. The sand is represented as placed directly in the hat, asit may be used in that way'or be first put in a bag. The pressure may begiven to the sand by means of the follower of an ordinary press, and istransmitted by the sand to all parts of the interior of the hat, in suchmanner as to cause every part of its exterior to be forced out againstthe oppo' site interior surface of the mold. The mold represented is forembossing in the form of rings a, a, but any other style of embossingmay be produced and a great variety of forms given to the hat by aproper form of the mold. The mold may with advantage be heated by steamor other means and the sand may also be heated.

The use of sand or other granular or pulvero-us material in the mannerdescribed, constitutes a very cheap method of shaping or embossing, asit saves the necessity of an expensively constructed metal die for theinterior of the hat or cap, and besides this it is more effective, thansuch a die would be, as the pressure is transmitted in all directions.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is,

The shaping or embossing of hats or caps by placing them in a suitabledie A, filling them with sand, or other granular or pulverable materialand subjecting such material to pressure, substantially as hereinspecified.

A. L. BAYLEY.

Witnesses:

IVILLIAM N. HoY'r, HORACE S. BAYLEY.

